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Toptal is a marketplace for experienced Product Owners. Top companies and start-ups hire freelance Product Owners from Toptal for app development, web development, and other software development projects to achieve their business needs.

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Clients Rate Toptal Product Owners4.3 / 5.0on average across 37 reviews as of Jun 6, 2023

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Iryna Charkovska

Freelance Product Owner

CanadaToptal Member Since July 3, 2020

Iryna has 12+ years of experience spanning product and project management, strategic and operational planning, performance measurement, continuous improvement, business intelligence, and change management. As a passionate agile product manager, Iryna focuses on building strong teams while delivering exceptional results.

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Stefan Tomasevic

Freelance Product Owner

SerbiaToptal Member Since March 29, 2021

Stefan is an exceedingly motivated and results-oriented analytical business professional with more than eight years of software development experience. He has a passion for innovation, problem solving, and driving products and ideas from inception to release into the market and beyond.

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Daniel Stoler

Freelance Product Owner

CanadaToptal Member Since July 9, 2020

After starting his career as a developer, Daniel became a strong leader in various technical and client-facing roles. Working for startups and enterprises for over 17 years, he has built great products that delight users and create value. Daniel is known for identifying opportunities, accelerating growth, providing real value, and exceeding expectations—taking products from the whiteboard ideation stage to go live while ensuring adoption and growth.

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Rohan Lulla

Freelance Product Owner

IndiaToptal Member Since September 29, 2020

Rohan has 10+ years of experience in product and engineering management in startups and enterprise environments. In addition to leading and delivering projects across multiple domains for enterprises such as Vodafone, Unilever, McDonald's, Dominos, and Singapore Post, Rohan has led Agile teams to build products routing $300+ million in transactions annually. He developed his expertise while delivering innovative projects and significant results through Accenture, LogiNext, and his own startup.

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Qing (Joanna) Xia

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since December 22, 2020

Qing is an influential product manager with 10+ years of experience, including five at McKinsey, and a Harvard MBA. Focusing on product strategy and development, she has served clients in the US, China, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe. Qing is adept at identifying product/market fit and leading distributed, cross-functional teams of up to 30 people to develop and launch successful solutions. In addition to focusing on healthcare, Qing has experience in banking, insurance, and logistics.

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Douglas Menck

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since March 25, 2021

A Certified Agile Product Owner, Douglas drills from wants to needs for requirements, loves SQL, manages customer expectations, and minimizes technical debt to improve delivery cadence. With a patent at General Motors, he has a passion for user experience and innovation. Douglas is a motivated self-starter focused on the functionality and ROI of features. As a data scientist and business analyst, he can read and enhance code, but his strength is being the middleman, the product owner.

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Galyna Mostova

Freelance Product Owner

PolandToptal Member Since March 12, 2021

Galyna has been in the software industry since 2007. Before she became a product owner, managing and delivering innovative software products in the medical sector, Galyna worked as a senior software developer, test developer, and Certified Scrum Master. In addition to leading SDLCs in Agile environments, Galyna excels in multinational and globally distributed teams, working on complex projects with many dependencies. Her professional experience is backed by a master's degree in computer science.

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Pamela Baker

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since February 22, 2021

Pamela is a successful product manager with 15+ years of Agile experience including product ownership/management and scrum master roles. Pam also gained significant process improvement experience throughout her career. She has worked in various industries, including grocery, insurance, government, mortgage, marketing, telecom, and agriculture. Pam's passion is forming a business and IT partnership that will identify, build and deliver solid and dependable IT solutions.

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Drew Noble

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since November 9, 2020

Drew has launched payment and support products in eCommerce marketplaces for the hospitality and automotive industries. Prior to that, she started, owned, and sold a housing business in Chicago. Drew has worked with Toyota Motor Company, General Motors, and Airbnb, where she converted more than 3,500 users into hosts and standardized national vendor site performance resulting in a $15.6 million annual impact. Drew is a problem-solving expert with a strong focus on product value.

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Athens Fitzcheung

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since November 16, 2020

Athens' experience encompasses large B2C and B2B names. At Wayfair, Athens led their loyalty and financing program, significantly increasing adoption and repeat purchases. At Drift, a Sequoia Capital-funded marketing startup, he spearheaded the conversation widget and reporting and analytics product, helping marketers boost lead sign-up rates. Athens has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MEng from Imperial College London.

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Testimonials

Toptal helped us achieve our goals by really understanding what we were looking for. They worked with us very closely to figure out what the right talent looked like -- from a technical, cultural perspective -- and helped us get the onboarding done quickly so the talent could be effective as soon as possible.

Jay Tring, Technical Team Lead, CSR Connect, Australia

CSR Limited

I couldn’t have been more pleased with Toptal. They are professional, quick, well priced, and fun. I will be using them again for my next project, and the next, and the next, and the next ...

Mac Smith, President

New Texas Investments

The best talent is at Toptal for sure. It's way better and faster than any other means of getting top talent.

Rajesh Nagarajan, Co-Founder & CTO

maxmantra

Getting set up with Toptal and finding a new team member was so easy, I don't know why anyone wouldn't give it a try. Best of all, we no longer have to worry about finding great people to help with our projects!

Mike Branch , President & CTO

Harbor System Integrators, Inc

One of our most time consuming problems is finding qualified staff. We need to find the correct platform to advertise on, create a proper ad, filter through tons of applications, interview and test the applicants' capabilities, and finally take a risk by hiring. This was the old way of doing things. The new way: describe the job position to our Toptal account manager, interview a few qualified applicants, and hire with a risk-free trial -- much faster, a lot easier, and with incredible results.

Catalin S. Balaci, Owner

EvoBits Information Technology SRL

Always incredibly responsive, prompt, and flexible, Anna has done an outstanding job -- her work is exactly what we needed. Toptal has been a great experience for us due to the ease of getting a project going with quality talent at a cost that fits our budget. The automated online system for managing everything during onboarding was also impressive.

Cody Wilke, Product Manager

Crucial Life Sciences Data Solutions

What attracted us to Toptal was that Toptal is sourcing its talent from a global pool. The selection process is very stringent. They’re sourcing the talent not only based on capabilities -- sourcing the best 3% -- but also based on cultural fit, which is really important to us. We had an amazing experience working with Toptal. Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing us very high-quality resources, on very short notice.

Elmar Platzer, Digital Transformation Leader, CSR Australia

CSR Limited

With the pressure on and millions watching the Cleveland Cavaliers during the NBA Playoffs, Toptal delivered the talent and expertise needed to launch a brand new fan engagement platform.

Conor Kenney, Director of Professional Services

Cleveland Cavaliers

Toptal has helped my business tremendously by finding, vetting, and recruiting the talent I need, at the right time. I’d definitely recommend it to others.

Xavier Xicay, CEO & Creative Director

Tuatara Corp

Toptal has been extremely helpful to us in finding top remote talent. The ratio from interview to hire with Toptal candidates is the highest I've ever experienced in my professional career.

Philipp Berner, Co-founder and CTO

KeepSafe

I can't say enough about how happy and confident I am in working with Enrique. He brings an enthusiasm to his profession that is very refreshing, constantly surprising us with his depth of knowledge and his capability to not only complete the task, but to surpass our expectations. He presents us with solutions that we would not have thought about ourselves, and sees the problem better than we can explain it.

Chad Berryman, Senior Technical Lead

Zoomedia

We had a wonderful experience with our Toptal consultant. He was very reliable and punctual, delivering excellent work on a budget—we will certainly be using him again!

Barbara Karpf, President

DecoratorsBest

How to Hire Product Owners through Toptal

1

Talk to One of Our Industry Experts

A Toptal director of product management will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
2

Work With Hand-Selected Talent

Within days, we'll introduce you to the right product owner for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
3

The Right Fit, Guaranteed

Work with your new product owner for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

FAQs

  • How are Toptal product owners different?

    At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our product owners to ensure we only match you with talent of the highest caliber. Of the more than 100,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut. You'll work with product management experts (never generalized recruiters or HR reps) to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics. The end result: expert vetted talent from our network, custom matched to fit your business needs. Start now.

  • Can I hire product owners in less than 48 hours through Toptal?

    Depending on availability and how fast you can progress, you could start working with a product owner within 48 hours of signing up. Start now.

  • What is the no-risk trial period for Toptal product owners?

    We make sure that each engagement between you and your product owner begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you're completely satisfied with the results, we'll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you'd like. If you're not completely satisfied, you won't be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial. Start now.

  • What type of talent do you have?

    Our platform hosts a very diverse group of skill sets, experiences, and backgrounds. Our freelancers range from software engineers, user experience designers, project management experts, and product managers to finance experts who have worked at leading companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many more. Our experienced product owners are strategists with multiple years of experience in agile product development and scrum teams, and they have great communication skills. They have worked in a myriad of agile projects, such as developing product vision and product strategy, product discovery, product backlog, prioritizing new features, and other projects.

  • What other services does Toptal provide?

    Besides our talent matching services, we also assemble cross-functional teams of finance experts, senior project managers, web developers, app developers, user interface designers and other technical skills.

Tap Into World-Class Talent

  • Trusted Experts Only

    All of our talent are seasoned experts who ramp up quickly, readily contribute as core team members, and work with you to minimize onboarding time.

  • The Right Fit

    We have a knack for matching you with the right fit. Start working with your new hire on a no-risk trial period, paying only if satisfied.

  • Scale as Needed

    Hire in under 2 weeks and scale your team up or down as needed, no strings attached.

  • Seamless Hiring

    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDA’s. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.

  • Flexible Engagements

    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

  • Expert Talent Matching

    Focus on your project and enjoy support from your dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.

Top Product Owners are in High Demand.

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